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Re:Ethereum programming for web developers by kang on Thursday January 18, 2018 @03:31PM (#16181088)
oracle is just a blockchain buzzword for api
Re:Ethereum programming for web developers by sremani on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:02PM (#16181422)
Is it? I was thinking it was more like .. "trusted external entity"

Here is a [old] post from the horses mouth https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/22/ethereum-and-oracles/